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RUSSIANS ACCEPT IRogue Valley Edition Medford 24 PAGES Two Sections ..slll R.ffl ftWaiHil : asssfl :A, ife.isfeSHBW','- f.t aaal ' SUMMER WHITE HOUSE This is to be the new summer While House. It is t he home of Louis R. Thun. Reading, Pa . industrialist, and is located at the end of Squaw Is Committee Denies Public Works, Shelter Stocks Washington - IVPD - In a mble economy move. t h e i use Appropriations Corn- Suttee today denied extra fuikis fur stocking fallout "shelters and refused President Kennedy's request for S500 j million in new emergency , public works. I ("The committee, handing the I A total of 12 persons spoke Republicans the biggest vie- j in opposition to the proposed tory to date in their current 1 route at the hearing, held to economy drive, decided that: j record the opinions of Jack--Civil Defense boss Steuart i sonville residents and others L. Pittman could get along without $61.9 million in sup plemental appropriations. He said the money was urgently needed to complete a fallout shelter program with space and supplies for 70 million persons. -It would not grant one j ent of the S300" million m emergency public works re quested by Kennedy to help head off a possible recession. The government now has almost $1.5' billion in appli cations from communities around the country seeking federal funds to help finance local projects. But the gov iernment has run out of money 8, voted by the previous Con egress for the program. A H o u s e appropriations '-subcommittee, headed by Rep. Albert Thomas (D-Tex'.) had ' drafted a bill containing $450 million of the S500 million sought by the President. But the entire committee, on a j;. 22-19 vote, knocked out all of the funds. Holmer Named to Replace McNeel I The appointment of John T. Holmer, Central Point, as tacting building safety director Hor the city of Medford was announced today by City Man lager Robert Duff. I Holmer will replace O. R. fiMcNeel, who resigned about two weeks ago to accept em Iployment elsewhere. The po sition will become affective April 12. Duff said. Holmer. 62. joined t h e -building department in March. 1962. as an inspector, follow ing several years of exper ience in building cent-acting ifand construction. TO INTRODUCE BILL Salcm-4?l-The Senate Ju- Iriiciary Committee has voted introduce a bill to let ma nor boards ana commissions appoint their own counsel, in I stead of being represented by the state attorney general. NEWS&yBRiEFS ITtMS ROM Jr "OONO THI OlOM GAO ASKED TO END PLANE CONTROVERSY Washington-lPI-Senate investigators have asked lhe Gen era Accounlina Officer to determine once and lor sll which of two competing companies TFX warplane al least cost, OPPENHEIMER TO GET ENRICO FERMI AWARD Washingion-'IPKDr. J. Robert Oppenheimer, whose se curity clearance was suspended by the Atomic Energy Com mossion in 1353. "ill receive the agency's coveted $50,000 Enrico Fermi Award. 1LWN TO HEAR SENATOR MORSE San Francisco-IPI-Delegates to the International Long shoreman's and Warehouseman's Union convention were to hear Sen. Wayne Morse (D-Ore.) at lodsy's closing session. ARGENTINE NAVY BOWS TO TERMS Buenos Aires. Argent. na-lPI-The navy was reported to day to have bowed to stiff "submission" terms, including a deep cut in marine strength and surrender of the Puerto Brlqrano base, to end Argentina's four-day revolt MEDFORD, J?i W Sill Si : .-fr i9 lli.jse"'.'- r Mi hi ; Highway Relocation Opposed by People Of Jacksonville Jacksonville Sentiment i expressed at a formal public 1 hearing here yesterday ran ! about 2 to 1 against the state ; highway department's pro- posed route for relocation of the Medford-Provolt highway through Jacksonville. interested In the project Four persons spoke in favor of the relocation route, while letters were read from two others favoring it. Bid Accepted for Mt. Ashland Work The regional office of the U. S. forest service, Portland, has accepted the lone bid of the Mt. Ashland Ski corpora tion for development of a lodge and ski facilities on Mt. Ashland, the office of the Rogue River National forest announced today. The Ashland corporation's bid was 1V6 per cent of the gross receipts from the con cession to be paid the forest service. Bid opening was Mon day afternoon. Construction of the lv mile entrance rd. from the Siski you summit should start in May or June, forestry officials said. They hope to advertise for bids starting April 8. The corporation would have the ski lodge and one ski lift of the poma-lift type com pleted by April 15. 1964, ac cording to its bid informa tion. This would include rest room facilities, and facilities for food and beverages. The ski shop probably would be established the first operating year and the area could eventually have four or more poma-lift and T-bar sys tems. Jury Trial Scheduled In Assault Case A jury trial for Robert Jo seph Garcia, 24. of 113 Tripp st.. Medford. who is charged with assault and battery in connection with an incident involving his three-year-old son on Christmas Eve. has been scheduled May fi in Jackson county circuit court. Garcia pleaded innocent to ; the charge in circuit court I this morning. could produce lhe controversial it was disclosed today. OREGON, FRIDAY, APRit 5, land near Hyannis Port, Mass.. on Cape Cod. The house is a short distance from the Morton Downey home which President Kennedy rented last summer. (UPII All statements were tape recorded and will be tran scribed and made available to 1 the state highway commission ; for study. Persons who did i not make a statement at the hearing yesterday were en ! couraged to write letters to I the commission, in Salem, Ore. Agreed On Principle As at an informal meeting , the night before, most per sons at yesterday's formal hearing agreed that some kind of a bypass, taking heavy traffic off Jacksonville's main streets, would be desirable. Bui those attending dis agreed over where the road should go. Some felt it should be run along the north side of Jackson creek , instead of alongside the south side da proposed by the highway de partment. Others felt that it should run around the north side of the Jacksonville ceme- , tery and bypass the city en- J tirely. E. O. Graham, mayor of Jacksonville, said he had not yet made up his mind on the question. He indicated that the city council plans to study the matter further and prob ably will issue a statement after due consideration. John Knaveny, president of the Jacksonville planning commission, opposed the route on the grounds that it would rob the city of too much as-! sessed valuation. Others thought it would destroy Jacksonville's historical at mosphere. Many persons expressed surprise at the Wednesday night meeting that the project j had been conceived and sur-. veyed so quickly, Yesterday ii was learned that the reason for the hurry reportedly was! that a large timber sale 'is; scheduled to take place in the Applcnate valley this sum ; mcr, as a result of which numerous logging trucks will , be traveling the Medford-Pro-: volt highway. Leave Preseni Highway The highway departments : proposed route would leave i the present highway at Black stone alley and run along the ! south side of Jackson creek, crossing E st. between Third and Fourth sts. and Oregon i st. between C and D sts., re : joining the present road at the west end of the city's bus iness district. Enough right-of-way for a four-lane highway would be purchased, although only two lanes are scheduled to be con- structed initially. The new road would be built at ground level, with access at Oregon and E sts. Victor Wolfe, administra tive assistant to the state highway engineer, conducted the hearing He announced that the department has re location advisory assistance available for residents dis placed by a new highway Be- (w0(,n 4 an(j lous05 would have to be removed if the proposed route through Jack sonville is adopted. At present it is not legal for the highway department to pay moving expenses of persons forced to relocate, but a bill to permit such pay ments has passed the Oregon senate and is now pending before a house committee. CLASH BREWING Salem - ilTT - A clash is brewing over which of Ore gon's two remaining tubercu losis hospitals should be shut T Tribune 1963 Powell Hit by Libel Judgment For $211500 New York -WPH Rep. Adam Clayton Powell Jr. (D-N. Y.), the "bad boy" of Congress but the darling of his Harlem constituents, was hit by a Su preme Court jury Thursday with a $211,500 libel judg ment. Mrs. Esther James. 66, who sued the Negro lawmaker for SI million after he referred to ner on television program bag woman" (graft col lector) for the police depart ment, received the .verdict with tears of joy. "The king is dead Adam Clayton Powell is dead. Now he will just have to keep his mouth shut." she said. Will Appeal Verdict Powell, often a congression al absentee, was In Washlns- of the trial, though a court room appearance had been promised by his lawyer. A spokesman said only that Powell would appeal the ver dict. The heavy judgment includ ed SI 1,500 in compensatory a&taages for loss of income and damage to reputation -and S200.000 in punitive dam- ages for wanton, malicious and reckless defamation. The all-white jury of seven J men and five women handed dOwh its verdict after four hours of deliberation. The settlement came as the j newest in a spate of personal j and political setbacks for the debonair Powell. As a 19-year! veteran of Congress and chair- i man of the House Committee on Education and Labor, he has weathered many crises, j including income tax scandals. j Returns Each Term But the 400.000 constituents 1 of his lb'th Congressional Dis trict in Manhattan, where he serves as pastor of the Abys- sinian Baptist Church, have ; shooed him in to Congress, term after term. One Harlemite, asked about : Powell's recent trips abroad,; said "Man. does that cat live!'' j The way Powell lives - spe- j cifically, the huge staff he has marshaled about his commit tee and a European junket he made last year with two pretty secretaries brought a public outcry, plus wrathful action against him by his con gressional peers. Powell requested $348,000 for operation of his educaiion and labor committee during the coming year. Holders of the congressional purso-strings cut that figure by 40 per cent to $200,000. Group Moves To Stem Defiance of Legislature Salem 0!PP - The Ways and Means Committee moved today to stem what it con siders defiance of the leg islature by voting to intro duce a bill to give the leg islature control of space al location in the capitol build ing WEATHER roHKrAST: npiidv and rainy tiimgrit Variant Iviurlinm lth .h"rr Hturday. A Ut ile CDOltr Saturday. LOW to night (Ml hi." Saturday nrir IS, Temp Highest Ynterarfv 85 ' LOWMtl Tllll .Morninc IB Prec. to Hi a m Today .1)8 Our Skies Toniaht Stinet today ItmHsfl t'lmortnw Moon set lomorrnw Full Moon PROMINENT STAB 6:41 v m. Ml p in. 3:09 a. in April Prorynn. rneri In tmithwrit S:33 p.m. VIMBI.I PLANKTX Mar, huh ihuv Prnryon S'tiirn. rises 1:12 m nuv rlw 1:H a.m. 'HOT LINE' PROPOSAL 58th Year Price 10 Cents! No. 13 Senate Elects To Put Death Penalty Before Voters Murder Would Bring Life Imprisonment Salem-iUPD-The Senate vot ed 25 to 3 today to allow voters to decide whether the death penalty should be re tained in Oregon. The Senate approved a pro posed change in the constitu tion which would make life imprisonment the penalty for first degree murder. The measure now goes to the House. The Senate resolution on the death penalty calls for the vote on the issue at the next regular general election in 1964. Opposition Votes voiiug against me proposal were Sens. Ward Cook, Eddie Ahrens and Ben Musa. Sens. Harry Boivin and Al Flegel were absent. The House passed a bill to encourage hiring of the handi capped by revising the work men's compensation law to eliminate charges against an employer's experience rating for a disability-related acci dent. The House refused. 40-18, to call the basic school fund bill from committee for a vote on the floor in the next few days. Rep. Joe Rogers (R-In-dependence) said it should not be left for "left-over" money. The House received a bill to create a special committee to look into the spending of public funds for lobbying. It also received a bill to appropriate $3 million to cities in lieu of a share of a cigarette tax, if such a tax is approved. Not Crime Deterrent In arguing for approval of "L SS?,"." " Srf" 011. lfuii iini'-i iwt.ww Oswegdisaid the death ptnaV ty was not a deterrent to crime. He termed .,. "part of a world-wide strug gle for the dignity of the hu man being." Sen. Thomas Mahoney (D Portland) reminded senators that the issue was rejected by 12,000 voles the last time it was on tile oanoi. nc point ed out the ballot description at that time was confusing. Sen. Walter Pearson ID Portland) said it was an issue that the people should decide. Youngster Admits Causing Hotel Fire Boston lUPP Police dis closed today a n-year-old boy has admitted playing with matches in the Sherry Bill more hotel room where a fire that took four lives and in jured 24 others started early last Friday. Police said the boy was the son of a member of the cast of the Broadway road show "The Sound of Music" which is currently playing at a down town theater here. Four times in recent months fire has broken out in hotels where the cast has been stay ing. Previous fires occurred in Minneapolis. Columbus. Ohio, and Baltimore. Md. No lives were lost in any of those fires. No charges were placed im mediately against the young ster. His mother, weeping, was brought to police head quarters. Neuberger Accused In Dunes Proposal Florence nj-Scn. Maunne Neuberger (D-Ore.,, was ac cused today of trying to by - pass property owners in the area proposed lor a Dunes na - tlonal seashore by advocating UWUHlgSU, n iuimsxia, v.. instead of the Horcncc-Keeds-port area. John S- Parker, chairman of the Western Lane Taxpay ers Association, made the ac cusation in a telegram lo Sen. Alan Bible CD-Ncv.), chair man of the Public Lands Sub corn mittec. Parker said the hearings should be held where lhe citi- j .ens most directly affected -and best informed on the is-' sues would have an opportu- i nity to present oral testimony Salem - HPT - Residents of the Masonic and Eastern Star Home al Forest Grove are not eligible to receive old ; age assistance. Atty Gen. Robert Y. Thornton said to ' day. I U S-Soviet Hot Line' East-West Berlin Clash Increases Border Tensions Berlin -WPP- Tension rose abruptly in Berlin today when East-West police clashed along the border wall and the Rus sians blocked a British tele vision star from flying his plane in the air corridors leading to the West. The West considered the Soviet veto of the flight a se rious violation of the Western Allied right of access. It was the first time in the four-pow er occupation of the city that the Russians prevented western night tn one of the vital nlr lane when Ewtern nolle, fired 10 ine ouraer uash Drose ouip"u. ne wm .w.rt 1 , , . . -. , . , ; " MJ Y ' . 7 72 w" nn capiurea "'. int' i, men , h i.ycni-uiu across. Bricks Hurled Communist police hurled bricks at two Western police- men who went to investigate the shooting. The Western po lice drove back the Commu nists by throwing four tear gas grenades over the wall. No injuries were reported. The flight veto was served by Russia's representative al Berlin's four-power air safety center. It prevented a return flight to the West by Hughie Green, a Canadian-born per former on British television who said Russian jets fired six machine gun bursts along side his Cessna when he flew In last Tuesday. He claimed the jets tried to force him to land. Implied Consent Measure Defeated Salem ojph-a hill thai would have Riven a driver suspected of drunkenness lhe choice of takinK a chemical test or losing his license went down to narrow defeat today In the Senate. The "implied consent bill," was defeated, 1513, after op- ponents termed i' an invasion of individual rights that could lay the grounds for harass merit of motorists. The bill, one of a package of traffic safety measures! urged by the governor, was based on the premise that a driver implies his consent to a chemical test when he ac cepts a driver's license. Sup porters said driving on the liiuli luutic uhfiiilj-) he r-nnuiHcr- , d ivi The b w(md , cd p,.,,, to arrest ,ua. i d drunkcn driver and , ,t chcmica test. tht, rcrtuged, he would have ... h(, ,., ,. ,.,,H have asked for a hearing within 10 days. If hia license were not restored, he could have appealed Pear Blossoms in Bloom on Week End Pear blossoms in the Rogue valley will be at the height of j their beauty thii week end. according to t h e county j agent's office. D'Anjou plantings are In full bloom today and the Bartlett tree buds are opening Persons wanting to see the bloom at its best are advised I to make the tour of tin- valley Sunday. t Billboard Ordinance Passed by Council After Discussion An anticipated explosion over the freeway Billboard sign ordinance failed to come off at last night's meeting of the Medford city council. The measure passed by a comfort able 6 lo 2 margin after a scant half hour discussion. Mayor James Dunlevy an nounced when the matter came on the floor that "this is not a public hearing." He limited discussion to 15 min utes for each side. Coiincl mnn Al Rrnrlfo cnairman oi ine mayor's sub commmec which draft! Yi. mny PDle fU th. bill was "iAn r,,.-l " u.., l. Th i.7,', .T" Travi, and R. L. Van Sickle. ucn uarrnaD w- - Try To Be Lenient He said his committee, com posed of two councllmen and two monibers of the planning commission, had "tried to be lenient, but still get as good an ordinance as the people of Medford wanted. Bradford pointed nul that the ordinance had been re vised from Its original draft out of consideration for the established businesses along Riverside avc. Under the amended version, signs with a total area of .'100 square feet and 40 feet high will be permitted In the strip between 270 feet and 600 feet from the centcrline of the freeway. The original draft of the measure had limited signs in that area to 200 square feet and 30 feel high. Address Council Two motel owners address ed the council in opposition to the ordinance. Max Weston, 1102 North Riverside avc., handed the council petitions which lie said bore 445 signatures of persons who were against the meas ure. "This ordinance is not a sound one," Weston said. "All the regulations staled in this ordinance are based upon a safety fnctor and that Is just a convenient excuse." He said that "tourists ap- Remodeling Set for Post Office Remodeling of the present post office building in Med ford into federal offices fol lowing construction of the new post office was assured Thursday when House and Senate public works commit tees agreed to authorize ex penditures of $226,000 for al terations, repairs and im- provements, according to Con- j represented here in the two gressman Robert B. Duncan. buildings, if possible. No of No floor action will be re-,ficial announcement bus been quired, Duncan stated. The ! made as to which agencies will actual fund; will be appropri-' be placed in the new building, ated as required by separate1 At the present time federal H0Ufe-Stt.Bt6 procedures. The! agencies in Medford are scat president's budget includes tered about the city. Some are SlU, 000 for design work in the ; located on McAiidrews rd., fiscal year 10U4 The remaining funds, Dun call said, are to be appropri ated in later years. Work will start when the new post office bUildfng. to be constructed in the block on Eighth st. neigh boring the Medford library park, is completed and oecu pied, lhe congressman stated. Checking In Medford Laurent Chantry, chief of repair and improvement, was In Medford a mnnlli ago 1 preciate and look for signs," and that outdoor advertising displays are effective "and do bring in business.' Another motel owner, Dale Hearrell, 1237 North River side avc., called the ordinance a "total inequity to wayside industries." No one in the over 75 nerv Die in the audience snnke in , summi t nr the nrrlinnnro One section of the measure or ov ides that slana for which permits have already been - BUed w the ares adiacent . , removed with In live years. . ! wiuutiimen voiinR against , . , . " . . l niinrl rwn ttmllnv nn the ordinance were Richattf wyar -lew- mat -, '.Concession To Be Operated As Usual Laurence V. Espcy, Jack son county parka and recrea tion chairman, snid today the commission agreed recently that collection of overnight camping fees and area main tenance at Howard Prairie lake would be handled as be fore. In a letter lo the county court regarding changes rec ommended in the contract by the bureau of reclamation and National Park service, Espcy agreed with some minor tech nical corrections. However, he pointed out that the entire developed rec reation area as serviced by the concessionaire would cost the county twice what the concessionaire charges. Con cessionaire Bob Johnston, Medford, performs services and does work which is tech nically a county responsibil ity, Espcy wrote. Bulletin Caracas, Venezuela - I t'l -Pro-Castro terrorist!, early today blew up Radio Trop ical's transmitting plant de stroying equipment valued al $100,000. checking on lhe post office building in lieu of the project, F. G. Herdman of the General Services Administration, re ported. Some federal agencies will be located in the new post of fice and others In the remod eled building. The plan is to house all federal agencies some on Liberty st., some on South Riverside avc., some in the post office and oilier build ings. In the post office build ing at lhe present time are federal court, Rogue River National forest service, the recruiting services, the Gen eral Services administration, Geological Survey, surface water division, Crater Lake National Park service, and Federal bureau of Investiga Informal Talks To Cement Plans Requested by U.S. East Germany Offers Disarmament Pact Geneva-OIPD-The Soviet Un ion today accepted the Ameri can proposal for a "hot line" telegraph or teletype link be tween Moscow and Washing ton to ease the threat of a nuclear war starting by acci dent. Soviet chief delegate Sem yon K. Tsarapkln said the ac ceptance was the "first prac tical result" achieved in 13 months of negotiations at the 17-nation Disarmament Con ference. U. S. delegate Charles C. Stelle "warmly welcomed" the move and called for in formal American-Russian dis cussions to work out details of the communciattons link over which President Ken nedy and Soviet Premier Ni kita Khrushchev could con fer directly to head off a war through error. First Conciliatory- Step Acceptance of the U.S. pro posal was the first concilia tory step made by the So viets here in months. "The Soviet Union is ready to accept a direct communica tion link, either telegram or teletype, between govern ments," Tsarapkln said. His mention of "telegraph or teletype" was in line with U. S. State Department think ing. A direct line telephone between Kennedy and Khru shchev was ruled out because of the translation problem, possibilities of misunderstand ing in a tension-filled direct conversation, and other tech nical problems. The Soviet move came just after TsaraDkin read to, the conference a cable from East Germany offering in start 1 rlinarmnmnt tttYrM.ma.nt .HK Wt rwrnatw uhUh u wnu "matuu., nM(iiM,.. 1 to the cause of world disarm- mem. m - nenmr nm nonftR o to many is a member ot thft eotv - - - w : nit l "k n imumnm irnniHiMiH mnifl onjy benefit the Communists. I East Germany's army la rela tively small, while West Ger many's armed forces form a I substantial part of NATO's defense in Eurnoe. 5pinaf Meningitis Attack Confirmed San Diego-fllPP-The fourth case ot spinal meningitis among Naval Training Center recruits in the past week was confirmed by the Navy today. Robere E. Lcheuquet, IB, son of Mrs. Leoh Leheuquet, Milwaukic, Ore., was admit ted to naval hospital Thurs day night. He was reported in critical condition today. Navy officials ordered men of Recruit Company 119, of which he is a member, quar antined. Recruit Company 118 was quarantined Thursday when David W. Hall, 17, San Leandro, Calif., was stricken with the infectious disease. The latest outbreak of the disease began last Thursday when Thomas C. Hester, 20, New Orleans, a member of Recruit Company 129, wa stricken. The company waa placed under quarantine for three days and was quaran tined again this week when another member of the unit, John G. Routon, 18, Man chester, Ga., reported sick Tuesday morning and died that night. tion, Predictions on the progress of the new post office indi cate that it will not be ready for occupancy In less than two years. The 12 houses In the block, bordered by K i g h t h and Ninth st. and Holly and Ivy sts. where the post office is to be constructed, are now vacant. The additional 75 feet of land across Ninth st. for which the government is ne gotiating with local owners is still occupied. Owners said Friday they were awaiting word from the government regarding the transfer. The public hearing for the vacation of Ninth st. between Holly and Ivy sts. has been held. This section of gravel ed street was offered by the city as limited parking and landscaping arer for the new post office. The actual vaca tion of the street haa not oc curred, but can be acted upon at any time by the city coun cil. City Manager Robert A. Duff said
